| Jafo: Oh, yes, this has been happening for years. We were offered, for example, "Heavy Metal" about three years prior to its release. Of course, we passed it up. You can get, if you want, any film on video (even films that are not yet released to theatres). I was referring to "legal" copies. By the way, the "law" is an absolute. My main concern is that this is the type of person who would gladly steal a key for Stardock/Wincustomize. |
You clearly miss the point.
This was a legitimate Clockwork Orange release, not some 'pirate'.
History for you....
Stanley Kubrick owned sole rights to the film's screening/distribution...particularly in the UK where it was made.....To be shown there the Censors wanted it cut [as a matter of interest I saw it there in London]. Kubrick refused to allow it to be altered...so it was never shown...[this is 1973].
It WAS, however, released in Australia....uncut but rated 'R'.....[the first film here to be so rated]....again, 1973
Many years later it was produced on VHS for the Australian market....and test-distributed to Video stores here.....until someone realised both AUS and UK were Pal format....and there would be frantic mail-orders to the UK of something which was still being vetoed by Kubrick...as far as the UK was concerned....so....the Videos were subsequently withdrawn from 'sale'.
Of course, now that Kubrick is dead, his estate has allowed the film's distribution fully.
I viewed that VHS easily a good 10 years before it was released commercially in any form, and yet it was a legal, commercial production and very definitely NOT a 'pirate'.
